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No. 610,0". Patented Aug. 30, I898. E ADAMSON REED FOR LOOMS.

(Application filed Nov. 3 1887.)

(No Model.)

UNITED TAIES EDWARD ADAMSON, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE EXOELSIOR LOOM REED WORKS, INCORPORATED, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,011, dated August 30, 1898. Application filed November 3, 1897. Serial No. 657,273. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD ADAMSON, of Pawtucket, in the county of. Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reeds for Looms; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The invention has reference to an improvement in the construction of the reeds carried on the lay of a loom and used to beat up the weft-threads as they are laid into the warp to form the cloth.

In the construction of the reed as hereto fore practiced the end bars fitting into the upper and lower ribs in which the ends of the dents are secured have been usually fastened to the ribs by tarred twines extending through eyes or openings in the end bars and around the heads of the ribs. These twines or cords often wear off and break, the end bars become loose and fall out, and such twines have'to be replaced from time to time by new cords.

The object of thisinvention is to secure these end bars to the ribs more permanently and to protect the rib ends against wear'.

To this end the invention consists in the peculiarand novel construction of metal ends and the manner of securing the same to the ends of the ribs to firmly hold the end bars, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a side view of part of a reed embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. a reed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the end pieces by which the end bars are secured to the ends of the ribs. Fig. 5 shows the method of securing the ribs, the dents, and the metallic strips together.

In the drawings, 5 indicates the series of dents, and 6 6 the upper and lower ribs. These ribs are made of two semicylindrical halves. The dents 5, near their ends, are placed'between the two halves of the ribs 6 6. They dents.

Fig. 3 is a top view of part of are usually covered with solder. Heretofore the ribs 6 6 were made to extend beyond the dents, so as to receive the end bars 10 between them, and were secured to the end bars 10 by winding twine around the ends of the ribs and passing the twine through holes in the end bars 10. These twines were soon worn by the constant use of thereed and the end bars loosened.

In my improved reed I secure the metallic strips 8 8 in thegrooves 7 7 of the ribs 6 6 by the twine 6, which is wound spirally around the two halves of the ribs 6 6, over the metallic strips 8 S, and between the dents 5. The ends of the longitudinal strips 8 8 extend beyond the ends of the ribs6 6, and after securing the end bar 10 in the slots 10 10 of the metallic end block 9 by solder I place one of the end bars 10, provided with one of the metallized blocks 9, at each end, so that the projecting ends of the metallic strips 8 8 will enter the grooves 7' 7 of the end blocks 9 9 and bring the end blocks up close to the ribs 6 6, and then secure the strips 8 S to the metallic blocks 9 9 by solder, whereby the metallic blocks 9 9 firmly secure the end bars 10 10 and materially strengthen the ends of the reed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a loom-reed, the combination with the dents and the upper and lower ribs, of the end bars, metal blocks slotted to receive the.

EDWARD ADAMSON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, B. M. SIMMs. 

